Martin Rottler returns as our guest. Martin is now an Aviation Lecturer at the Center for Aviation Studies at The Ohio State University. He recently completed an internship with Korean Air in Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), and participated in a summer program through Korea Aerospace University. We talk about NextGen, pilot training in the modern age, what gets trained in simulators and what doesn’t, cockpit management, industry networking as a component of your career development, and other topics.

In this week’s Australia Desk Report, Grant talks about CASA audits and what DAMP means, Qantas dispute worsens with five airplanes grounded due to industrial action, Jetstar staff also taking industrial action, and Virgin Australia happy to take the surplus pax from Qantas.

This week on Across the Pond, Pieter talks to Jelle Hieminga from the popular VC10 segment. Jelle is a Qualified Flight Instructor with a frozen ATPL License and talks to us about the general aviation scene in Holland and what its like to fly in Dutch airspace. Jell can be found at www.vc10.net.

On this week’s Grill the Geeks segment, Rob nails the listener questions.

Richard: Thanks for the BA recruitment video. They mention a website in the video, and one of the commenters provided: http://www.bafuturepilot.com/.

TKO: Some listeners love the horsing around, others can’t stand it and unsubscribe. The fact is, either way we’re going to horse around sometimes. That’s just the way we are. The question is, how much stays in the final edit, how much goes into the outtakes, and what happens to the purely unpublishable stuff!

Just wanted to chime in on the “When’s NextGen?” question… The FAA published Destination2025 recently, [1] which expects the complete package implemented in 2025, with a major waypoint set for 2018. If you’d like to see timelines of what’s expected, they also have the National Airspace System (NAS) Enterprise Architecture (EA). [2] There’s roadmaps for different aspects the NAS, and they are updated periodically.